You Are Safer in Iraq than in New Orleans…
Tom Blumer at Newsbusters has fun with numbers:
Below are 10 listings for US cities and years. Your mission to accomplish (so to speak), is to guess whether each particular city's murder rate in the year identified was higher or lower than the "violent death rate" in Iraq (which is, from all appearances, all-inclusive). Let's use the Iraqi government's higher number of 16,273 just for the heck of it, even though the Associated Press will "surely" be bothered that I'm exaggerating the level of violence compared to what their records show (somehow, I think they'll get over it). Using the government's figure means that Iraq's violent death rate in 2006 was 56.49 per 100,000 residents (16,273 deaths, and a population per Wiki of 28,807,000).
New Orleans, LA - 2006; 67.5 (154 murders; population 228,000
Maybe the Democrats should be talking about cutting and running from Southern Louisiana…
On January 3, 2007 at 4:42 pm, Playin' Possum wrote:
Both rates are certainly under reported… But NOLA is sliding into the gulf, so we won’t have to worry about that one eventually… We’ll be stuck with Iraq ’till Pat Robertson’s hell freezes over solid…
On January 3, 2007 at 5:24 pm, doctorj wrote:
Thanks for looking forward to the destruction of my hometown New Orleans. It is hard to cut and run from a place you never showed up in to begin with.
On January 3, 2007 at 6:00 pm, Playin' Possum wrote:
Begging your pardon doctorj… I thought we were looking backward at it…
On January 3, 2007 at 8:53 pm, SVC Alumnus wrote:
Aurelius - although the loss of any soldier is a tragedy, it’s important to keep things in perspective. After all, the MSM hates Bush & the military.
On January 4, 2007 at 6:07 am, Playin' Possum wrote:
SVC, that’s such a ridiculous canard. By and large , the MSM has been bending over backward to kiss his ass. If they would have really pushed the truth, he’d have been staring at a jacquerie long since…
On June 16, 2007 at 7:51 pm, Valium. trackbacked:
Valium….
Valium….